[Npoc-discuss] Letter of objection to the Paraguayan Parliament regarding proposed Paraguayan Internet surveillance laws

[Sam Lanfranco]

NPOC Members,

On behalf of NPOC the NPOC executive committee has endorsed a letter of 
objection to the Paraguayan Parliament regarding proposed Paraguayan 
Internet surveillance laws. While recognizing the issues behind the 
laws, we do not think this is the proper approach. The ExCom faced a 
three-day deadline so there was not the opportunity for a wider 
discussion of the decision, but follow up comments are welcomed.

Here is a link to the letter [en Espanol and in English] 
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/p6W7PQgphV

[Extracts from the letter] /If passed into law, the bill will force 
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to stored users' data for a period of 
twelve months. The data collected would include the source and 
destination of all communications, the time and date of all connection 
and disconnection logs, as well as details about the users' location and 
devices. This collection will track the online activities of millions of 
innocent users, and will be accessible by Paraguayan law enforcement as 
part of the investigation of any criminal offense./

/This bill does exclude the mass collection of the content of electronic 
communications. However, indiscriminate collection of 
non-content("traffic") data and the cross-referencing of this 
information can reveal far more than the bill's proponents have 
suggested in remarks tomedia; more, even, in some cases, than the 
content of a communication could show. Traffic data provides sufficient 
context to determine some of the most intimate details of the lives of 
Paraguayans, including where they live, work and the identity of other 
locations they regularly visit,their relationships to others. It can 
provide complete lists of friends and other contacts, describe their 
online habits, and reveal their personal preferences in every part of 
their private and political lives./

Sam Lanfranco, Chair, NPOC Policy Committee

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